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Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

howard941 wrote: post #128
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #88

Dear Microsoft, As a vocal critic of the Linux Desktop, your horrifically misguided attempts to "improve" Windows since Windows 10 have so degraded the experience of using it that I am now only 2 reasons[0] away from switching anyway, so at least I don't have to pay for the privilege of using crappy software. I would ask you kindly to cease your endeavors to kill off the Windows Desktop and personal computing in gene…

Consider FreeBSD and its ports model. You'll be building your own ports from sources but you needn't touch another package someone else built, if you don't want to.

No. I have no desire to have my primary means of installing software be to compile from source. That's retarded. Literally retarded, in that it is a backward concept from the before-times.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by andrewmunsell »

Semaphor wrote: post #93
andrewmunsell wrote: post #22

Is it at all ironic that I get a page that is trying to force me to turn off my ad blocker when I am trying to view a link about Microsoft putting ads in their Mail app?

Weird, either you need to get a better adblocker, or they don't show that in EU.

That's probably true, I haven't touched the AdBlocker extension in a while and I get anti-ad block modals all the time. Probably time to look into an updated list with a working anti-ad block blocker

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

pritambaral wrote: post #130
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I like having software that is up to date and delivered direct from the developer. I like having portable applications that don't even need installation. I like being able to put applications on different disks. I like being able to have multiple versions of an application. There is not a single package manager in existence for Linux that gives me these things.

Sounds like AppImages would satisfy all your requirements.

Yeah, they do actually. I really like AppImage, it's a shame they aren't really embraced at all by the community. Good luck getting them to show up with icons in your file manager (even Nitrux, which supposedly embraces AppImages, can't seem to do it).

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by matty22 »

IpV8 wrote: post #90
aikah wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. AFAIK a license is paid with every new computer coming WITH Windows, so it isn't like people get Windows for free. I'm not sure it is even possible to transfer Windows's license from compute…

What do you mean tomorrow? When I open my start menu today I see ads for a bunch of games and apps that I don't have installed. When I see my lock screen I see a pretty nature photo with a couple of clickbait phrases on it like "If you think that this place is peacefull, then..."

That lock screen really chaps my jimmies. Either tell me what you want to tell me or shove off.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by crankylinuxuser »

aaaaaaaaaab wrote: post #131
puranjay wrote: post #37

And I thought Windows 10 couldn't get any worse. After the latest update, my hard drive wheezes like an asthmatic climbing his 25th flight of stairs on startup. Just a long list of problems with Windows 10

>hard drive Found your problem!

better than a micro soft!

/har har har

But seriously, I still refer to even SSDs as hard drives. Spinning rust or memory chips. They're interchangable right now, until spinning rust phases out completely.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by WorldMaker »

amyjess wrote: post #25

I currently use this on my Surface because it's more touch-friendly than Gmail's website, but it looks like I'll be moving on. Any recommendations for a touch-friendly (i.e. must be UWP) mail app for Windows?

The latest Gmail revamp is more touch-friendly than it used to be, especially in Edge (despite Gmail's increasingly obnoxious insistence that you should only use Chrome).

The article suggests that the Mail app will never have ads for Office 365 users. Office 365 Home is often a good deal for a Surface owner anyway, as it boosts your OneDrive space, and gives you up to date copies of all the Office programs, and stuff like that.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by dpau »

jammygit wrote: post #44

All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd

How long until Microsoft starts inserting ads into our Github repos?

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by russdpale »

Nexxxeh wrote: post #129
LeoPanthera wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you're assigning "walled garden" to macOS, but macOS is still UNIX underneath, and you can run any open software you want on it. I still think it's an excellent option for the privacy conscious. There are plenty of free software based operating systems that will take your money. Red Hat seems like the most obvious one.

The noise-dive Apple's software has taken, it might fall under the "treats like crap".

It seems quite a few people have been turned off by the recent mac book pro fiasco as well.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by reaperducer »

mav3rick wrote: post #65
jammygit wrote: post #44

All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd

The money you would likely pay would be less than what they can make by selling you ads (as a whole). If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business.

If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business.

I don't think this is true, but if it is, please provide a link to prove the assertion.

I doubt that companies are selling software at a loss with the intent to make it up in ad revenue. They're selling the software at a profit, and then getting ad revenue for additional profit.

All this just to "maximize revenue potential" for a bunch of faceless investment funds.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by wild_preference »

foepys wrote: post #100
_uhtu wrote: post #47

Amazon has lately been putting ads on prime video for other prime video shows. I have a feeling we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads. Also, on prime video, occasionally, pressing the fast forward button won't skip the ad. I'm sure it's one of those "bugs" that just happens to force the user to do something the company wants but the user doesn't but I have a feeling it might just stop working all…

Netflix is going down the same route. They are not interrupting continuous playback yet but they are already promoting their Originals with autoplay ads (sometimes even with sound) in some clients. Luckily their clients' range of functions is horribly inconsistent, so I can still chose different clients to avoid this.

I feel like we're diluting the atrocity of shitty ads when we refer to anything and everything as an ad.

Netflix's above-the-fold, skippable "Now Showing" preview on the homepage can't be compared to the unskippable videos that Amazon and Hulu force you to watch. Hell, it even remembers that you muted it. And it only plays if you sit there staring at it.

Since almost all of Netflix's competitors force you to watch ads after you click play, I'm pretty happy with what Netflix does. Seems like a perfectly fair trade-off to me.

If you don't like it, just add ".billboard-row" to your content blocker. I bet you haven't. I bet you kinda like it. ;)

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